Improvement in fare-boxes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. OOWING, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FARE-BOXES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,722, dated October 11, 1875; application filed september 23, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. OowINe, of Washington, District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fare-Boxes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specication,in which- Figure l is a vertical transverse section, and Fig. 2 is a vertical Section in .line .fr w of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference in the accompanying drawings denote the same, parts.

The object of this invention is to improve the construction ot', fare-boxes for street-railroad cars, omnibuses, &'c., so as to render them more simple and economical in construction,

land to cause them to exhibit the fare more `plainly previous to its being deposited at the lower end of the box.

To accomplish these objects -I dispense with the upper compartment and its horizontal trap-Hoor heretofore used in this class of boxes, and, in lieu thereof, employ a single compartment, in which a small central cup receives the fare and holds it until it can be inspected. The cup is so shaped and arranged that the fares deposited at any one time are concentrated at the center of the box, where they can readilyand plainly be seen from both front Vand rear.

In the drawings, c a represent the sides, and c' the top, of my fare-box, in which is a single chamber or apartment, A, provided with suitable guards or.deectors g gl g2, to prevent paper currency, tickets, Snc., from being drawn out of the opening o by means of a stick or wire. O is a small cup, supported at the center of the chamber A upon a rod, r, and held in the proper upright. position by means of a spring, s'. B is the conductors or at the lower end of the box to receive thefares as they drop from the cup O.

The cup may be made of glass, if preferred, and its'walls should slope inward from the top to the bottom, so as to concentrate its contents at the center ofthe chamber, where they canreadily and plainly be seen. It can be inverted by a movement of the rod r by means of the projecting handle h, and when vthe rod is liberated the spring s instantly restores the cup to its proper position. The situation of the cup at the lower end of the incline y, almost directly beneath the opening 0, causes it to assist the incline in preventing the abstraction ot' the contents of the box through said openin g.

At the end of the route the fares collected on the trip are removed through the door m by the -proper officer.

The inclines g1 g? may be dispensed with, if preferred, they being provided merely out of abundant caution to prevent any possible unauthorized access to the drawer d.

The incline g may be made in the form of a chute or spout to direct the fare more accurately into the cup, though this will not, in general, be necessary.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- The single-compartment farebox A, provided with the central cup O, the rod r, and the spring s, arranged with relation to the ineline g, the opening o, and the Windows w w, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth. y

Y W. J. COWING.

Witnesses F. MGKENNY, THEoDoEE MUNGEN. 

